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How MIT Is Redefining Quantum Computing With New Entanglement Control
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Quantum-Information-Entanglement-Qubits-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Quantum Information Entanglement Qubits" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high"><p>The advance offers a way to characterize a fundamental resource needed for quantum computing. Entanglement is a form of correlation between quantum objects, such as...</p></div>
Scientists Have Discovered Cognitive Benefits of Creatine
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Creatine-Powder-Pills-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Creatine Powder Pills" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async"><p>Creatine, a widely used supplement among athletes to enhance physical performance, has been found to also temporarily boost cognitive abilities affected by sleep deprivation. This...</p></div>
Revolutionizing Photonics: 2D Materials Manipulate Light With Remarkable Precision
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/2D-Material-Light-Manipulation-Art-Concept-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="2D Material Light Manipulation Art Concept" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async"><p>NYU Abu Dhabi researchers have unveiled a novel 2D material improving optical modulation for advanced systems and communications. Responding to the increasing demand for efficient,...</p></div>
“I’m not interested in reality”: AI artist Refik Anadol on creative coding, hallucinations, and the future of art
<div><img src="https://www.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Refik_Anadol.jpg?quality=75&w=1067&h=600&crop=1">By painting with code and bits of data, AI artist Refik Anadol reveals surprisingly deep insights into what it means to create art.</div>
Scientists Identify New Brain Circuit That Inhibits Appetite
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Young-Boy-No-Appetite-Not-Hungry-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Young Boy No Appetite Not Hungry" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy"><p>A neural pathway suppresses appetite when experiencing nausea. Feeling full, nauseous, or anxious can all contribute to a decrease in appetite. Postponing meals may be...</p></div>
Electric vehicles will start to cut emissions and improve air quality in our cities—but only once they're common
<div>Electric vehicles are often seen as the panacea to cutting emissions—and air pollution—from transport.</div>
Unlocking the Secrets of Consciousness: New Brain Imaging Study Illuminates Critical Connections
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Evolving-Mind-Consciousness-Thought-Communication-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Evolving Mind Consciousness Thought Communication" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy"><p>Researchers identified a subcortical brain network that is thought to combine arousal and awareness, playing a key role in human consciousness. A study recently published...</p></div>
Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses
<div><p>Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week that was in tech. This edition’s a tad bittersweet for me — it’ll be my last (for a while, anyway). Soon, I’ll be shifting my attention to a new AI-focused newsletter, which I’m super thrilled about. Stay tuned! Now, on with […]</p>
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Gut Bacteria Turn the Tide on Cholesterol and Heart Disease
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Gut-Feeling-Health-Concept-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Gut Feeling Health Concept" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy"><p>Gut Bacteria May Reduce Cholesterol and Lower Heart Disease Risk Researchers pinpointed gut bacteria that affect levels of cholesterol and other compounds linked to heart...</p></div>
What is OpenAI's Sora Diffusion Transformer (DiT)?
<div><div><img src="https://cdn.analyticsvidhya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SOra.jpeg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Explore how Sora uses the Diffusion Transformer architecture to generate stunning visual content. All about Sora DiT!</div></div></div>
Human composting and timber marketplaces: talking “industrial” VC with investor Dayna Grayson
<div><p>While the venture world is abuzz over generative AI, Dayna Grayson, a longtime venture capitalist who five years ago co-founded her own firm, Construct Capital, has been focused on comparatively boring software that can transform industrial sectors. Her mission doesn’t exclude AI, but it also doesn’t depend on it. Construct recently led a seed-stage round, […]</p>
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Unlocking High Energy: New Aqueous Batteries Surpass Traditional Limits
Traditional lithium-ion batteries, while offering high energy density, have compromised safety because they use flammable organic electrolytes. Aqueous batteries use water as the solvent for...
New Global Study Confirms: Conservation Actually Works
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Cuban-Crocodile-Hatchling-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Cuban Crocodile Hatchling" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy"><p>A comprehensive meta-analysis examines the success of various conservation interventions globally and across different time periods. A recent study recently published in the journal Science...</p></div>
Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators
<div><p>Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and entrepreneurship.</p>
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With inspiration from “Tetris,” MIT researchers develop a better radiation detector
<div><img src="https://www.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Tetris_9556656051-e1714840060264.jpeg?quality=75&w=1067&h=600&crop=1">A new detector system based on the game “Tetris” could enable inexpensive, accurate radiation detectors for monitoring nuclear sites.</div>
Cosmic Revelation: MIT Uncovers a New Space Molecule
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/New-Molecule-Detected-in-Space-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="New Molecule Detected in Space" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy"><p>MIT’s discovery of 2-methoxyethanol in space reveals new insights into the development of molecular complexity in space during star formation. New research from the group...</p></div>
Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users
<div><p>Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who can reply to their posts (competing services like X and Bluesky offer similar reply controls). Threads outlined its plans for quote controls last month, and last night Adam Mosseri […]</p>
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Deal Dive: Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space
<div><p>While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person care.</p>
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Taiwan is experiencing millions of cyberattacks every day—the world should be paying attention
<div>Taiwan stands out as a beacon of democracy, innovation and resilience in an increasingly autocratic region. But this is under growing threat.</div>
Physicists Discover “Topological Hall Effect” in Two-Dimensional Quantum Magnets
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Glowing-Particle-Physics-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Glowing Particle Physics" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy"><p>Researchers from the High Magnetic Field Center of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Science...</p></div>